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RFID Smartcard Vulnerability Published, Allows Anyone To Crack It In Minutes Using Inexpensive Tools

2008-10-06 23:22:21 by CyberInsecure in CyberInsecure.com
 
Details about worlds most widely deployed radio frequency identification (RFID) smartcard vulnerability have finally been published Monday. RFID smartcards are used to control access to many transportation systems, military installations, and other restricted areas, and it can be cracked in a matter of minutes using inexpensive tools. The first...
 
Tags: rfid, inexpensive tools, smartcard vulnerability, rfid smartcards, radio frequency identification, transportation systems, military installations, minutes, control access
 
 
 
 
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New Year's Resolutions for choosing online retailers

2007-12-20 09:31:28 by Andras Cser in Security & Risk Management
 
...inexpensive, low level of security, medium user inconvenience User has a list of OTP passwords printed on a sheet or a grid card of letters and numbers that the user has to enter when logging in Vendors: Entrust Out of band authentication (costly, medium level of security, medium level of user inconvenience User receives a secondary one time...
 
Tags: user inconvenience, low user inconvenience, users desktop, users desktop software, software, medium user inconvenience, low, imagic software, user
 
 
 
 
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Keyloggers: Why Banks Need Two-Factor Authentication

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2008-01-14 11:55:21 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
...inexpensive two-factor authentication used here in Thailand and APAC: SMS-based 2FA In a nutshell, SMS-based 2FA involves having your on-line banking system send an SMS message with a one-time password (OTP) to your cell phone. You then must enter the OTP to complete your transaction Is this a perfect solution No But, it is much better than...
 
Tags: two-factor authentication, keyloggers, inexpensive two-factor authentication, usb keyloggers, hardware keyloggers, 2fa involves, time, black keylogger, keylogger
 
 
 
 
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OpenDNS: Web filtering on a budget (i.e. free)

2008-03-02 12:17:20 by Editor in Adventures in Security
 
...inexpensive solution. OpenDNS easily meets these requirements
 
Tags: medium businesses, businesses, risk sites, sites, opendns easily, web, past weeks, user access, home users
 
 
 
 
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Are your digital devices Certified Pre-0wned?

2008-03-17 16:11:45 by Chris Wysopal in Zero in a bit
 
...inexpensive digital devices made in China that we plug into our computers. The malware problem is getting tricky to dodge. First you couldnt open email attachments you werent expecting. Then you had to worry about surfing even trusted websites with JavaScript turned on, even with the latest patched browsers. Now you have to worry about...
 
Tags: devices, malware, low volume malware, drive, tech devices, usb drive, previously unknown malware, digital picture frame, inexpensive digital devices
 
 
 
 
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Boston Moves to Bubbles of Access

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2008-04-04 09:53:35 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...inexpensive pilots; and the potential departure of the volunteer CEO in favor of a paid leader Still, I don't think it's a bad idea to retool: with no money on hand, with no commitment from the city, with the first pilot in place, rethinking the project as a series of lit-up areas makes just about as much sense as anything; cf., Houston The...
 
Tags: off-the-shelf hardware, off-the-shelf, components, hardware, open-source components, open-source, proprietary hardware, city, free software
 
 
 
 
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What do the Cold Boot Crypto Attack, DVD Players, and MiFare tell us about the Future of Biometrics?

2008-03-26 00:16:43 by Erik T. Heidt in Art of Information Security
 
...inexpensive, commodity device, easy to purchase, maintain, and operate. Such a device would have to be even more ubiquitous than the electronic credit card machine The problem is that the authenticator itself may be in the possession of the attacker (Perhaps after you authenticate your legitimate purchase the clerk desires to use your...
 
Tags: biometric authentication, biometric authentication infrastructure, biometric authentication challenge, tamper-proof biometric authentication, authentication, authentication device, mifare, tamper, biometrics
 
 
 
 
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Web Email Exploitation Kit in the Wild

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2008-04-16 13:42:23 by HASH0x8ab1c88 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...inexpensive paid updated as closing loopholes in the mail filters Automating the process of phishing by using the vulnerable sites as redirectors can outpace the success of the Rock Phish kit whose key success factor relies on diversity of the brands targeted whereas all the campaigns operate on the same IP Moreover, as we've seen...
 
Tags: xss vulnerabilities, vulnerabilities, kit, day xss vulnerabilities, xss exploitation kit, xss, xss exploitation, mail server, mail
 
 
 
 
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A Free Mobile Data Encryption Solution

2008-04-20 07:20:40 by Editor in Adventures in Security
 
...inexpensive tools that meet basic security needs. Recently, I decided to look at a solution to a common challenge--protecting sensitive mobile data. The solution is TrueCrypt. An open-source product, TrueCrypt provides both hard disk and mobile storage device encryption functionality. In this post, I include a brief overview of TrueCrypt and...
 
Tags: solution, truecrypt, sensitive mobile data, inexpensive tools, basic security, open-source product, common challenge, hard disk, include